Reminds me, I was talking about Amiga 500 ethernet on another board, and a lot of the responses were, "The 500 isn't powerful enough for that, it's a waste."
People should ignore, and I wish at many points in my life I had ignored, comments like these.
Way back in time when I had more time to spend on fanciful pursuits, I was reading the Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference book and decided that if the system provided a software 6551 emulation, then I should be able to find a real 6551 (they were available via Jameco back then) and build a module. Then programs like Novaterm and CNet BBS could be modified to use a real hardware UART.
Bear in mind that I had no idea of the existence of Transactor magazine or CMD products at the time, and this was before the SwiftLink-232. A local SysOp introduced me to the MiniModem C24 to replace my home-made RS-232 interface with an Emerson 2400 modem (which died and was replaced by a Wang.)
At a swap party he hosted I presented the idea along with some simple plans and diagrams. No one seemed interested, and one of the guys I sadly accepted as an expert on the matter told me that the disk drive could not keep up, so downloading at higher speeds was useless.
That single comment killed my project idea. Then a few years later I heard about the new SwiftLink-232. I was crushed.
I think many here can probably relate to having a flash of brilliance, then putting it off for whatever reason, only to find it produced a few years later.
EDIT: Aside from that emotion scarring, the comment is just ignorant, anyway. Much less powerful machines were networked in the past.
